1. Florence, 16 June 2003 Andrea Scotti
Demonstration of the MESMUSES portal
at the Museum of the History of Science
Florence, 16 June 2003
Andrea Scotti

2. Summary:
Mapping the historiography: the class tree definition of a science history test bed.
The transformations of the ontologies in the project: samples of models used.
Creating a dump db for the portal data: the relational evironment for the dynamic creation of the schema architetture.
Navigation (samples) of the schema: the final interface/s, querying and rendering.
The Itineraries navigation : semantic units VS schema

3. Mapping the historiography: the class tree definition of a science history test bed.
The obejcts and their classification/interpretation history: existing historiographical methods and existing structured digital descriptions. Samples from the test beds survey.
The surplus benefit of structuring/restructuring into the ontologies the existing digital repositories.
Choosing the representative classes and relative properties for the the tree definition.

4. 1. The objects (exp1.): Galileo’s Giovilabio and its sources

5. 1. The objects (exp2.): Lavoisier’s areometer and its sources

6. The transformations of the ontologies in the project: samples of models used.
Schema: high specialization that was describing the entire complexity of the objects and concepts required for the knowledge representation of the two quoted test beds.
Schema: attempt to simplify the schema by means of generalization of the concepts.
Schema: re-specialization of the knowledge concepts and determination of the historical foundation classes.
Schema: final class tree used in the portal.

7. 1st schema

8. 1st schema
2nd schema

9. 2nd schema
3rd schema

10. 4th schema

11. Creating a dump db for the portal data: the relational evironment for the dynamic creation of the schema architetture and the instance population.

12. Navigation (samples) of the schema: the final interface/s, querying and rendering.

15. E. The Itineraries navigation : semantic units VS schema